Too bad you can't crack the biometric instead - channelling MythBusters, all you need is tape.

Right you are! I'm heading over to Discovery on demand to see if that one is available. If my memory is correct, they went really advanced to crack the Microsoft fingerprint reader and really had to go over the top to do it using jelly mold fingertips with heating and a secret portion not shown on telly. However, the uncrackable $600 door lock was done with a photocopy of the finger print!

Since we can't use the original fingerprint, maybe all that is pointless?

This is great. Carry your encrypted data around with you in the form of a knife. Then if you get stopped and searched by the police then you get in trouble. At least that's how they're trying to make it!

This is great. Carry your encrypted data around with you in the form of a knife. Then if you get stopped and searched by the police then you get in trouble. At least that's how they're trying to make it!

In the UK anyway!

Police won't confiscate a Victorinox, or other multitool.

It has obvious purpose. In the UK, you can carry any <3.5" blade excluding locking or flick blades.

Any length or type may be carried if concealed with good verifiable reason. (Ie. I'm a member of a hunting club, heres the number. Or I'm a Scout Leader, hence the wonky uniform)

But anyway, on topic, surely the best way to crack it is to desolder the memory chip, and fit it to a pre-made sans hardware encryption reader?

Doesn't say anything about that being disallowed. Feel free to try to implement that master plan anyone - I won't be able to make it there. But if you win, your welcome to my PayPal

(Unless, of course i consider your hacking skill to be upto the task of fauxing PP...)

since you swipe the finger, there is not much of a print remaining on the plate is it?
something else with those "press finger against surface" type of devices.
And I know a print can remain even after cleaning the surface. Forensics sure have lifted prints from cleaned surfaces before. Of course depends on how good of a cleaner you are.